Baby walker and swing.



A; WESLEY.

BABY WALKER AND SWING.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 22. 1918.

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A. WESLEY.

BABY WALKER AND SWING.

APPLICATION FILED APR.22. 131B.

Patten ted May 6, 1919.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- UNITED STATES PATENT orrroumanor. WESLEY, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BABY/WALKER AND swme.

Application filed April 22, 1918. Serial No. 280,003.

To all whom it may come m:

Be it kl'lOWIl that I, ARTHUR WESLEY,

a citizen of the United States, residinat Chicago, in the county of Cook and tate t of IlllllOlS, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baby Walkers and Swings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and' exact description of the invention, such as will enable ld others skilled in the art to which it apper-' tains to make and use the same. v

My invention relates to appliances for exercising and amusing young children, such as baby walkers and baby swings. In

lb one of its general aspects, it aims to provide a suitable seat for the child in combination with means whereby this same seat may interchangeably serve either as a portion of a baby walker, or as a portion of a ht swing; and desirably also to provide a suitable guard for protecting portions of the connections between the seat and the other elements, and for affording a convenient hand-hold and arm rest for the child.

dill Viewed in this same general aspect, my in vention aims to provide a seat-carrier which will support the child independently of the guardformation, and which in turn may be supported either by suspension cords arllld ranged to afiord a swing, or by a frame equipped withpcasters'. y

- ln another aspect of my invention, I aim to provide a baby walker which may readily be collapsed into a small space, and which hit may speedily be erected and assembled without the use of tools into a ri id structure; toprovide a, base and leg ormation which will permit the legs to 'be disposed substantially within the base when the device is not in use, and which will automatically hold the legs in their last named disposition; to provide simple and efiectlve means for securing the seat-carrier together with the seat fastened thereto to a portion ol the device (such as an arm rest), so that these portions need not be handled s'epa rately, and so that they still can be readily separated when the seat is to be washed; to

provide simple means for detachably securing the legs firmly to the seat-carrier without the use cl tools, and preferably to arrange these fastening means so that the seat-carrier and, the legs may be simultaneously secured to asuitable guard formation. ll lore particularly, my invention aims to provide a base structure for a baby Specification of Letters Patent.

' of the same parts.

Patented May 6,1919.

walker comprising a hoop and resilient legs secured to the ringand adapted to be held entirely within the hoop by their own resiliency; also, 'to provide a seat carrier made of wire and having certain portions adapted to be clamped .between portions of a baby walker structure, and having other portions adapted to be secured to suspension cords. Still other, and to some extent more detailed objects, will appear from the following specification and from the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a baby walker embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical and central section through the same. I

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view showing the method of securing the legs and the seat-carrier to the guard.

Fig. 4 is an under-side perspective view Fig. 5 is a plan view of the frame or base and leg portion, of the baby walliei',

with two of the legs swung into their compacted position, and the third leg onlyf swung part way.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentaryperspective view of my appliance when used as a baby swing.

Fig. 7 is a bottom plan view of the guard and seat portion of my appliance, with a portion of the seat out awa Fig. 8 is an enlarged and iragmentary may desirably be in the form of a wooden ring 3, and which desirably has a tray l fastened to it. The seat-carrier 2 is desirably attached to the guard 3 by means permitting an easy detaching of the same, as for example by providing the wire 2 with integral loops 5 extending under spring clips 6 i'astened to the under side of the guard 3.

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'lhese loops 5 desirably extend sudiciently so that t ey may readily be engaged by .s naps 7 at the ends of suspension cords 8 when the appliance is to be used as a baby swing. These suspension cords,'which are preferably four in number, are. desirably spaced from each other at a considerable height above the snaps 7 by a rectangular wire frame 9, and desirably terminate in a single sus ension l'llfiifillo after the general- I'nanner 0 Fig. 6. en the parts are connected as in Fig. 6, it will be obvious that the seat-carrier is supported by the cords independently of the wooden rin ring merely acts as a guard, as a and-hold, and as a convenient support for the tray, 4. The spring clips 6 prevent the guard ring 3 from rotating on the seat-carrier, thus maintaining the tray continuously in front of the child. When not in use and hence not subjected to the weight of the child, the wire 2 and the seat carried thereby can readily be detached from the uard ring 3 by partially rotating it, there y enabling the seat to be held under a faucet or otherwise mani ulated for washing the same.

' en my appliance is to beused as a baby walker, the snaps 7 are detached from the loops 3 and the seat carrier is supported by the le s of a wheeled frame. This frame desira 1y consists of a steel hoop 11 equipped with casters 12 and having three resilient legs pivoted to the inner face of this hoop.

Each leg may consist of two overlapping p ortions connected by bolts as shown 1n igs. 2 and 5, thereby permitting the efiec-' tive length of the legsto be varied according to the height of thechild. The lower end of each leg preferably is bent at an oblique angle so as to aflord approximately the proper angle for compensating between the difierences in diametersof the seat carrier and thehoop 11 as shown in Fig. 2.. This oblique angle also is-preferably such that the main portion of the leg will be longer than the cord of the arc which this portion tends to assume with respect to the hoop 11 when the leg' is swung about its pivot and approximately into the plane of the hoop,

as shown at the left hand of Fig. 5. Consequently, each leg must be flexed somewhat to dispose it within the'hoop, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and the pressure due to this flexing automatically holds the legs within the hoop. Thus constructed, this frame portion occupies a very small s ace when compacted, and may be freely han led without having the legs swing out of'their guarded position within the hoop.

When this frame is to be used, the free ends of the legs are snappedout of the hoop and are secured to the seat-carrier, this being desirably done by means of thumb-bolts 13 carried b the wooden guard ring 3 and so arrange as to clamp the free end of ortion of the seatcarrier. With this in mind, I desirably pro 3, which sembled, the weight of the seat-carrier is borne by the legs, so that the guard 3 serves only as an ornament, a means of concealing the upper ends of the legs, and as a support for the tray 4. Owing to the clamping just described, the ring 3 and the tray 4: are kept from rotating with respect to the seat carrier, so that the entire walker forms a strong and rigid structure. However, by loosening the three thumb-nuts of the bolts 13, the guard 3 and the seat-carrier held to the latter by the spring'clips 6 can be automatically and uickly detached from the legs, after whic the latter can be swung down and flexed within the hoop, thus permitting the parts to be stored in very small space. However, while I have pictured and described my appliance as having a seatcarrier formed from a single piece of wire with loops projecting beyond the periphery of the guard ring 3, as having a seat of textile material, and as having a base carryin three legs, I do not wish to be limited to t ese or other details of the construction and arrangement here described, it being obvious that the'same might be modified in many ways without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a baby walker, a base ring, a plurality of legs pivoted at their lower ends to the inner face of the said ring on pivots extending substantially radially of the ring, whereby the legs are adapted to be disposed substantially within the plane of said ring, each of the said legs normally extendin upwardly and presenting a substantially orizontal free end; a seat-carrier having portions resting upon the said horizontal free ends of the legs, andmeans for simultaneously securing the seat-carrier to these ends and holding the latter in rigidly spaced formation.

2. In a baby walker, a wheeled structure including upwardly extending legs equipped at its upper end with an upwardly facing recess, a seat-carrier having portions resting in the recesses of the le an arm rest, and means for simultaneous y securing the arm rest to the legs and clamping'the seat-carrier therebetween.

the seat carrier to the arm rest, and means independent of the said conjointly operating means for securing the seat-carrier to the arm rest.

4:. A baby walker or baby swing, including an arm rest, a seat-carrier disposed below the same, means engaging the seatcarrier for supporting the latter, and coning means for securing the seat-carrier to the arm rest. 6. An appliance as per claim 5, in which the said securing means permit the detachvment of the seat-carrier from the arm rest by a relative rotation thereof.

7. In a baby swing, an arm-rest, a seatcarrier, disposed below and, adapted to support the arm rest, suspension means engaged with the seat-carrier, and means independent of the suspension means for securing the seat-carrier to the arm rest. a

8. A baby swing including an arm rest, a seat-carrier disposed below and adapted to support the arm rest, said seat-carrier being made of wire and having a plurality of loops projecting laterally beyond said carrier, and suspendin members respectively engaged with the said loops.

9. In a baby walker, a seat, and a support for the seat including a ring and a plurality of legs pivoted to the inner face of the ring and adapted to be moved about. their pivots for the seat including a ring and a plurality of legs pivoted to the inner face of the ring and adapted to be moved about their pivots and disposed substantially in the plane of the ring; each of said legs comprising a relatively short portion pivoted to the rlng and disposed substantially parallel to the adjacent part of the ring, and a longer portion bent at an oblique angle to the aforesaid portion, the said angle being more oblique than the angle which would be adorded between the said adjacent part of the ring and a cord of the rin equal in length to theisaid longer portion 0 the leg.

11. ln a baby swing, an arm rest, a seatcarrier disposed below and adapted to support the arm rest, suspension means engaged with the seat-carrier, and means independent of the suspension means for preventing relative lateral movement of the seat-carrier with respect to the arm rest.

12. An article of the class described, comprising a wheeled structure including upwardly extending legs, plural suspension means, and a seat-carrier having separate plural portions respectively disposed for enga ing the suspenslon means and the legs.

gigned at Chicago, lllino1s,Apr1l 18, 1918.

ARTHUR WESLEY. 

